Bo at Ballard Creek by Fitzpatrick Hill

Bo lives in the secluded town of Ballard Creek, an Alaskan mining town, with her two papas.  They adopted her when her mother left Alaska for someplace warmer.  She loves her life in the cookshed where one papa cooks while the other is a blacksmith for the mining company.  Her best friend is Oscar, an Eskimo boy from the town.  They spend their days visiting the miners and other townsfolk.  It's the perfect life for young Bo.

I loved this book.  It was a little slice of life in the Alaskan wilderness.  It reminded me a lot of the Little House on the Prairie books.  It seems almost timeless in its stories.  You know that it is set in the past without any technology we take for granted.  It is only by one small sentence that you find out it is set in 1929-1930.  This is a great book for boys and girls to read!

Continue reading about Bo and her unusual family in Bo at Iditarod Creek.